Mar 8th2009About Me

I’m a website designer, web programmer, website developer, or what have you.

I’m pretty much a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to building a website for someone and I can manage every aspect of building a website.

I develop all my website using the latest coding standards of HTML5 & CSS3 so that the website works great on desktop computers, tablets, and cell phones. On top of using the latest coding standards, I write code that changes how it looks depending on the device viewing the website. Cell phones, tablets, computers, it doesn’t matter what is used to view the website, the code is Responsive and will optimize the website for the best viewing experience. Javascript coding takes care of the things that HTML5 and CSS3 can’t take care of by themselves. Finally, but not least, I have extensive knowledge of building websites using the open source software WordPress. The beauty of using WordPress is that when I finish writing the code, I literally hand the keys to website over to you. WordPress is the ultimate tool for managing a website, even if you have little to no experience with maintaining website. However, if anyone runs into an issue that they can’t figure out I’m only a phone call away.

So if you’re in need of a website,
code fixed,
or just help doing something web related,
contact me using this form.

Comments

Hi … somehow after the latest update the fixed menubar disappeared and fades away into the deep nowhere when scrolling down the page … any clue for that? … thanks for help … and btw: brilliant theme!!! like it most … regards marc

Ah, all that I mean by that is that the code is physically typed out and that I started from scratch to make a theme. A lot of themes use this cookie cuter design and adapt it suit their needs. I feel that these cookie cuter themes that these authors throw together just aren’t as good.

Hi,
First off all I wanted to say I really like the Semper Fi Lite theme!
Is it possible to post an embedded youtube video on the front page when having 3 columns next to eachother? I can’t figure out how to get it to work..
Thanks for your help!

Currently that isn’t possible to have a YouTube video on the 3 columns, once WordPress finally releases 3.6 I will work out code so that it can pull in many things, among them is videos just like your asking for.

If your WordPress install is working fine it will automatically check for updates. There is a tab labeled “Updates” on the left side of the panel where you can run updates for the themes, plugins, and new WordPress version.

Hey Eric, I’ve got a fews problems with your Adventure theme. I do love the theme though!
First of my menu in the header get’s screwed up if it exists out of seperate words. for example: Teaching Methodology (vakdidactiek) => will look like this => Teaching (space space space) Methodology (enter) (vakdidactiek).
Also I can’t make add a category in a category. Say I’ve got WDKA => Project Activation => Teaching Methodology (vakdidactiek). Could you perhaps add such a function?
The text in the About Me section gets spread out too much, is there something I can do about that?
And lastly could you make it possible to be able to edit the sidebar more? Like change on which side of the screen it is, change it’s font and the colour of the font?
For the rest I’m VERY satisfied with your theme and think it’s the best I’ve come across so far! So thank you very much!

I would need to see a photo about those problems, you should use my contact me page so we can just email because it would be easier. As for the sidebar stuff look for it in the next update which I hope to work out this weekend.

I really like the adventure theme. How can I change the font on the header? Also, I want to use exponents in the title of the header, any ideas? I do not mind paying for an upgrade, but I do not know how. Thanks!

The font in the header can be changed by going to the “Theme Customizer” which is linked in the admin bar. You don’t need the upgrade,but it would be much appreciated. Respond back if you have any trouble.

Hi Eric. Love your themes, but I am currently having an issue with the title replacer that uses an image instead with the Semper Fi theme. Whenever I select an image from the desktop or drag an image into the uploader, nothing happens. Any ideas?

I have been getting a few emails about this problem and have no idea why it is yet. It could be a few different things, but I would recommend trying from a different computer. It works for me time and time again, even on other computers. If you send me an email with a temporary username and password I could try uploading it for you.

Is it possible to remove the page title from the top of the page for the Adventure+ theme? If I leave the line blank, the tab shows a blank space instead of the page name. If I put the name in the title section, the tab shows correctly but the name shows up at the top of the page. I’d like to eliminate that.

Thanks Eric. Also, my theme background is very light (white). The sidebar words are white. I don’t know how to find the code for that, but is there a line i should look for to change the sidebar text to black?

I’m sorry, a lot of the time I’m unaware who has and hasn’t purchased the theme. I just help them no matter what normally, just don’t tell anyone I need to get paid too. Anyway, I just looked and was shocked that I haven’t got that feature in the theme. I’ll be updating the theme tonight hopefully and will send you an email with the new code once it is done.

I am using the Semper Fi Lite theme as I am building a concept site for a sporting club – as soon as they are happy with the styling, I will be purchasing the full version to enable other features.
I am wondering if in the full version, it is possible to have no front page at all, basically I just want to view the background. If I select no static front page, I just get a blank transparent bar – I want to remove that, is it possible?

Hi, now I’m playing with the Adventure theme for another blog. Can you give me the HTML color code for the blue header? I’m trying to match the sidebar background to it. Also, is there a list of all of your themes somewhere?

hmm. not sure how else to explain it. Instead of a title page displayed on each page I want it replaced with an image. However, I still want each page to have its own title so ill have to make an image for each page with the title name in the image. this is a screen shot made into an example in photoshop: http://westriverkayak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/page-title-idea.jpg

You need to add more posts to your WordPress for it to look right. The idea is that snippets 3 wide will display across the screen before starting a new line. Unless your screen is too small, then it will drop down to two and then one if the page determines it.

Hey Eric, I am have some trouble navigating through a the editorial forms.
Two questions for you. Would like to set up a reverse order on comments in a page. treating it as a review page with newest first. I downloaded Reverse Order Comments plugin but I cant find the area in the comment.php form it asks me to edit.
to give you an idea http://westriverkayak.com/about/comments/

Second, How can I change the title of each page to an image or change color of only the title page.

Hey, I enjoy the Adventure+ theme. I am have trouble with my meta tag, keywords mostly. There is no header.php for me to input my meta information. Did not realize that switching themes would remove my recent meta tagging.

It’s possible on your end, if you disable the comments from the page / post then there is no way for you viewers to comment. Go to the admin section of and open up the post as if you were going to edit the post / page. In the upper left corner of the screen you will see “screen options,” click and then make sure the box “discussion” has check mark in it. Finally towards the bottom of the page / post look for the box labeled “Discussion” and then make sure that “Allow Comments” is checked marked.

If this doesn’t fix it there has to be an error(s) in the code on your server some where.

Eric,
I am a WordPress user and activated your theme Schwartzy / Semper Fi. When I did so initially the banner bar at the top was transparent (I could see the background image clearly through it). I liked that, but thought I would try out the different colour options of blue, purple, green etc. Once I did that I could not return to the transparent banner bar, even if I de-activated and re-activated the theme. Help?

I’m from the Netherlands and maybe my English is not always as clear as I like to be. I’m new in WordPress so I have lots to learn.

Very nice theme you’ve build! I have chosen it together with a friend to build her site with. And after that I think I will rebuild my own website too. What specially is great is that the menu is sticky when you scroll down. It is really very handy to browse with.

I have a few questions and perhaps some ideas for you:
– Is it possible for me to switch off all the things what has to do with blogging? With other words, I would like to use it as a standard website.
Then I like to design one page for a contact form or put fields in for reactions/blogs. The text “by ……” beneath every page is then not necessary.
– In the sidebar on the right you can switch all things off but the main page stays the same width, is that possible to change when I use no sidebar?
– Could it be possible to change the background from the header and the footer like the pages?
– Could it be possible to put the search bar in one line above each page, in this way the pages can be wider.
– Can I switch of the fields: “Leave a reply” and “”
– Is there a possibility to change the borderline colors?

I really hope that you can give me some good tips or hope that it can be done.

I will be working on an update that gives you a bunch of options for the Time, Author, and etc. The content is completely flexible, this theme is responsive in design, but if you want to make it wider than it is now… that would be very difficult and very low on my priority list for now. Changing the color for the borders will be in a future update, just not sure if this time around or next. Changing the background has always been possible, so I’m not sure what you are talking about here.

With changing the background I mean the Header and Footer color. You have 3 options that are very dark.
I think it is made with an image? If I could change the image (in combination with opacity) or perhaps a color with opacity that would help a lot. Perhaps if I now where the file to find I can replace it with another with the same dimensions en experiment a litlle. I’m familiar with FileZilla and Photoshop so that should not be a problem.
The version I now use is version 2.2 that I have downloaded from the Dashboard on tuesday the 12th of february. That is the newest I can find.

To let the Adventure them more look like a standard webpage with no blogging on it I have found in the index.php the subroutines to call for the Comment window and the Previous en Next window.
I simply deleted it and that works fine for me. The only thing I’d like to remove is the ‘by admin’ on each web page but I can’t find it (yet).
Could you and will you let me know where I can find that and switch it off (or remove displayed text)?

Me again I.ve already found the text “by admin” and Ive made’comment from it and it works. Now the website is not looking any longer as a blog site.
Can I find the ‘page text color’, the ‘widget text color’ and the font type of both header texts in the style.css or in the theme-options.css?

Hello I’m constuyendo website with wordpress Adventure theme as a template seems very attractive. But I have several problems:
– Can not create new “semitransparent rectangles” to include text and images. On the issue appear only three and I would need more.

-In the tablet and mobile phone background image is cut off and how hard I try always moves

The latest update let’s basically do whatever you want with newer post / older post and etc. The problem with tablets is because the person that wrote the web browser is wrong, I can’t fix their mistakes. Transparent images need to be a PNG file to work and I tested it a while back with it working just fine.

Hi Eric!
I am loving the Adventure theme you created! I just wanted to ask you how I can remove the “Older Posts” and “Newer Posts” box at the bottom of each page.
I want my viewers to use the menu bar at the top instead of being given the option to click on Older and Newer posts.
How can I remove this? I am creating a website for a client; therefore, this is a time-sensitive matter.
I hope to hear from you soon!
Jen

There’s a new version out now that I’m unable to really reach all my old customers, but if you have purchased “Adventure+” in the past and contact me about it I’m give you the new code that automatically searches for updates now.

With-in the next few months I plan to completely rewrite the theme so that it is “Responsive.” Meaning that the theme will stretch to fit the smallest cell phone screen to the biggest computer screen without losing a thing.

Absolutely loving your theme, looks really good and definitely stands out from the others
Might just be chasing you in the near future as I’d really like mine personalized a little more…who better to ask than it’s creator.

just purchased adventure plus, great theme!
-how can can I change the post background, I’d like it to be the same as the sidebar and the menu background?
-how do I change the post font color?
-Also how can I make the sidebar a bit wider and the post more narrow?

All the theme options are in the located under “Appearance” in your WordPress admin panel. As of right now you can’t change the width of sidebar but that will be in the next big update. As for changing sidebar background to the menu back ground that is some quick CSS coding I can do for you. I plan to include changing the sidebar menu background too soon.

The newest version of Adventure+ does just that, and if the options aren’t what your looking for I’ll send you a new copy. I’m working out the kinks in my new shopping cart, so go to downloads and get the 2.0 version.

I have been using the plugin “Better Backgrounds” to allow random background photos but it appears it doesn’t work with your Adventure 1.4.6 Theme. I’d love to see them work together since I love the translucent menus but want the random backgrounds. I’ve not be able to figure out on my own how to make these two play nice and any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Eric, I love your theme, and have decided to use it. I am new to word press, creating my site. However, I am unable to change the color of the footer that caries the menu (The color doesn’t blend with my site). I have went inside the editor under footer and that didn’t help. Please, lead me down the road to solving my color issue. Thanks, Greg

Hi Eric. I liked very much your theme and I am using your theme at my site. I am using WPML to translate my site and I am getting your theme ready to be translated by that. I wonder if you don´t want to get those modifications to upgrade your theme and make it translatable using gettext functions (that’s what I am doing). Tell me if you want it, because I am using 1.4.2 but to add those changes to your development it would be better to work on the newer version.

From what I have seen, as you are a theme developer, wpml.org gives you a free account to use and test their plugin. You just have to register there. I´ve seen people above trying to translate it to French and German. I will do to French and Brazilian Portuguese.

Sorry to take so long to decided on this but I couldn’t make my mind up until now. I like the idea of this code and would for my theme to be translated in as many languages as possible, but I really pride myself with the cleanest and lightest written code out there. If you look at the number of pages and code I use it is very minimal come paired to other WordPress Themes, which is why I do not want to add WPML to it right now.

Now the upside to this is that if anyone want me to quick add in there language I will do this for free all the have to do is ask.

Hey, I’m using your Adventure 1.4.2 theme, and I’m looking for a good Twitter plugin. I’ve tried using the Twitter app from Twitter, but it floats outside of the right hand column. Thoughts/suggestions?

Hi, I also love this template, but after upgrading to the latest version today, when listing a category it no longer shows images in the listed posts. I liked it better before. How can I get this back?

Thanks Schwarttzy, I have tried the featured image option but it does not help me in the way I want it to work. Is there a chance I can download the previous version somewhere, or is it available from you? Im not good at programming!

hi. I really want using your theme but I use the “all in one adsense and yahoo ypn plugin” which pushes my pictures to the left or right out of the main column, How can I fix that, to wrap my pictures again. well I try to do that my self but if you have any idea? or maybe you have an adsesnse plugin that works well with your theme? thanks a lot…

Your theme is great and I’m using it in conjunction with Word Press and the Mike Dillard system which is amazing. I just wanted to thank you for the great work you did on this theme. I’m a business man, not a coder, and your theme assisted me in obtaining a theme congruent with my business approach. We are both adventurers in our own right! Good luck and I hope our paths cross one day! – I wish you all the best – Polar Bear Joe

I’ve been using your adventure theme and I don’t know how many people have complimented me on my website! Thanks a lot! However, today, it was “updated” and no longer works. I’m new to creating webpages and all the time that I took getting things to look right looks to be wasted. I’m sorry to complain, but is it possible to put things back to “normal” and just create a new theme such as Adventure2 or something like that? Thanks a lot.

hello today I got an uptdate from your nice theme and I did it, but now the background picture is no longer to see.
Can you help me with this??
Have no idea what to do. I would not like if I have to change

I found the design of your site on WordPress. I have used it for my own site.
So I have to congratulate you for this great design.
I would like also to translate in french some of the title. Would it be possible?

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